Spider-Man shoots into theaters this July and leaps right into the middle of action. There is no origin story here, instead Homecoming continues the plot a few months after the events in Captain America: Civil War. Peter Parker is currently a high school student in Queens, New York City who lands in the middle of a conflict with the villainous Vulture, played by Michael Keaton.
Spider-Boy or Spider-Teen doesn't have the same ring to it, but is a better description of this 15 year old version of the superhero.
Tom Holland, who is actually 21, brings a nerdy innocence to the part and captures the youthful bumbling nature of Parker in ways his predecessors did not. In the musical Billy Elliot Holland played the title character in London, but don't look for a movie version of Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark anytime soon from him. He's signed to a six picture deal with Marvel Studios and will next appear in Avengers: Infinity War.
There is a great deal of diversity at Parker's fictional high school. GLAAD ambassador J.J. Totah, Beast of No Nation's Abraham Attah, and fashion model Zendaya are among the students. Flash Thompson is usually portrayed as a large, white, football player, but now played by lean, Guatemalan actor Tony Revolori, known from The Grand Budapest Hotel. The school principal is Asian and the gym teacher is Black. This inclusive spin on the original comics written in 1962 by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko gives a breath of fresh air to the franchise. New York is the great American melting pot and it shows with the casting for this film.